Fashioning indie : popular fashion, music and gender / Rachel Lifter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lifter, Rachel, author.

Series:

Dress cultures.

Dress cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--Social aspects--History--21st century.

Fashion.

Indie culture.

Indie pop music--Social aspects.

Indie pop music.

Popular culture--History--21st century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

xii, 212p. ; ill.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.

Summary:

In 2005, British supermodel Kate Moss went to Glastonbury with her then-boyfriend, indie rocker Pete Doherty. Their unwashed appearance captured widespread attention, propelling the British indie music scene and its signature look-slender bodies clad in skinny jeans-to the center of popular fashion. Using this fashionable watershed as a launching point, Fashioning Indie narrates indie's evolution: from a 1980s British music subculture into a 21st-century international fashion phenomenon. It explores the lucrative transformation of indie style, first into high concept menswear and later into "festival fashion"-a womenswear phenomenon that remade what indie looked like and provided a launching point to reimagine who the ideal subject of indie could be. Fashioning Indie is essential reading for academic and popular audiences, offering an original account of what happens when a subculture is incorporated into the commercial fashion system. As the music and fashions of festivals face increasing scrutiny in debates about diversity and inclusion, and the transformations of indie style coincide with the global expansion of the second-hand retail sector, the book offers also essential insights into the broader culture of popular fashion in the 21st century and the values that inform it.

Contents:

List of Illustrations Introduction

Chapter 1: From subculture to hot look: The evolution of indie Chapter 2: Skinny boys and Parisian runways: The commodification of indie authenticity Chapter 3: Wellies, fringe and individual style: The commercial rise of festival fashion Chapter 4: Prints, paints and crop tops: The emergence of Afro-diasporic festival fashion

Chapter 5: Beyond Retro and the pop ragtrade

Conclusion

Notes Bibliography Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-206) and index.

ISBN:

9781350126350

OCLC:

1120693686